Novation has New OS for A and K-Stations

And there's more 16/05/05

Since Novation's acquisition by Focusrite the boys (and girls) in the back rooms havent been slouching. Indeed, multiple software updates have been uploaded to the Novation over the last week. These include learn files for Logic 7 and Cubase SX3, a new OS for the A- and K-Station and an updated ReMOTETemplate Editor, MIDI Driver and OS.
New OS
The new OS for the A-Station (2.1.02) and K-Station (2.1.01) offers several significant modifications, affecting the sound and operation of the synth. Clicks caused by changing the patch whilst the previous one is still sounding have been addressed and MIDI clock synchronization has
been greatly improved. The A/K-Station can now accept very high levels
of jitter from the incoming clock and even clean up and retransmit an
unstable clock, as well as being able to act as a master MIDI clock. In
addition, the A-Stationâ€™s arpeggiator can now work identically to the
K-Stationâ€™s, offering the ability to transmit arpeggiator notes to its
MIDI output.
The ReMOTE has had a revamping in several areas, with a new OS and MIDI
driver both eliminating minor bugs. Many improvements can be seen in the
new Template Editor (1.1), including fixed excessive idle CPU usage and
crashing after multiple undo/redo. The memory usage and download size
has also been reduced and the MIDI Library and Tooltip behaviour have
been expanded and enhanced.
Last but by no means least, in response to floods of requests from
Novation customers, new learn files with instructions for Logic 7 and
Cubase SX3 and accompanying Templates have been added to the ReMOTE and
X-Station Download sections. Simply downloading all learn files using
the link and then opening the folder for the relevant software wanting
to be controlled will show instructions for how to set up the new
Templates and import the relevant learn files. Once done, the
ReMOTE/X-Station can be used to control the Transport window, 8 channels
of the mixer (volume, pans, mutes etc.), open up the edit matrix, call
up certain tools and a host of other useful things.
All of the above can be downloaded from the specific product Download
pages in the User area of the site. Lastly, dates have now been added to
all items within the Downloads pages; Operating Systems, Drivers, Learn
files etc."